Across all languages, NLLB-200 is seeing the best results for translations modified <10% compared to all other MT services on the platform — a strong signal for the quality of translations that are being generated. 4/5
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NLLB-200 becomes third most-used translation engine in four months
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NLLB-200 now represents 3.8% of all machine translations on the platform. This makes it the third most-used machine translation engine across all published translations just four months after launch. 2/5
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GEM-2: Novel Method for Full-Range Many-Body Molecular Interactions
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Combining data-driven & first-principles approaches to build a model, we proposed GEM-2, a novel method that comprehensively considers full-range many-body interactions in molecules.
Paper: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2208.05863
GitHub at #PaddlePaddle: https://
github.com/PaddlePaddle/P
addleHelix/tree/dev/apps/pretrained_compound/ChemRL/GEM-2
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Andrew builds new feature for decentralized Mastodon alternative
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Andrew's building that feature for his little Mastodon alternative right here, and I'm watching with extreme interest https://
github.com/andrewgodwin/t
akahe/commit/dbe57075d386d7474bafc208b654507d9a2d769e
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Lighter Mastodon alternatives for serverless self-hosting
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Mastodon itself is a bit too heavy for my liking – PostgreSQL and Redis and Sidekiq and Ruby – I'm excited to see more work going into lighter alternatives that are optimized for inexpensive (ideally serverless) self-hosting
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Hugging Face Dev Advocacy Internship Focuses on Speech AI
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Update: I’ll be interning with the Dev Advocacy team at @huggingface for the next couple months. I’ll be working on Speech and adjacent use-cases P.S. That’s my team mascot
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Mastodon deployment options: PostgreSQL, Ruby, Redis infrastructure
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There are a bunch of options as far as I can tell, but I've not tried any out yet Mastodon itself is pretty heavy – PostgreSQL and Ruby and Redis and a massive number of Sidekiq queues
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Mastodon Explained: Decentralized Blogs and Feed Subscriptions
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I'm finding Mastodon a lot easier to understand having I've realized that it's just blogs. Everyone gets a little blog, on their own server or someone else's. Following someone is pretty much subscribing to their feed. You can even roll your own implementation from scratch.
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Mastodon maturity addresses decentralized social network challenges effectively
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The reason I'm optimistic about Mastodon is that they very clearly understand the challenges involved in running software this way, and have spent the past 6 years plucking away at them It's not perfect, but I think it's now Good Enough, especially for this unique moment
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Mastodon App Sees User Return and Significant Improvements
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Genuinely the first time I've heard of that app Lots of people who tried out Mastodon a few years ago have been signing up again (or reactivating old accounts) and expressing surprise at how much it has improved since they first tried it
